We Provide Daily Forecasts, focusing on Flooding, Severe and Winter Weather, for Davidson and Williamson Counties on Twitter/X, Instagram, Threads, & BlueSky. We add live YouTube broadcasts during Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and Tornado Warnings. It’s free. No subscription required.
We think you should have more (and better) information than what you get on that crap app on your phone that shows you humorless, model-generated numbers with confusing clip art and annoying ads (we do not accept advertising dollars, despite best efforts of many lol) that’s no help at all when the weather turns severe or when the white death (snow) descends on the city.
Turns out, providing that information is not hard to do if you care and you work at it.
Using fancy radar, model, and observational data, and dialed into the National Weather Service’s internal chat, we tweet out forecasts, watches, warnings, ETAs and commentary about floodwaters, hail, severe wind, lightning, tornadoes, snow, and other severe weather only for Davidson and Williamson Counties. We also provide detailed daily (sometimes twice a day when things get real) forecasts published on this here website.
We are National Weather Service (Nashville) partners. This means we coordinate and relay – in real time – your flooding, severe & winter weather reports tweeted with the hashtag #tSpotter.
If you see: TORNADO, FUNNEL CLOUD, FLOODING, HAIL, STRUCTURAL DAMAGE, TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN and/or SNOW/FLURRIES, let the NWS know ASAP by tweeting your report with the hashtag #tSpotter. Tweets with photos and specific locations (geotagged) are best. Your reports assist the NWS in issuing warnings and advisories. Here’s our oldest example of that:
Send in your reports! They are valuable. They improve the forecast. They assist in warning decisions. They may even save someone’s life. Your report is the eyes of the NWS.
Yeah, But Who Exactly Are You?
We are not the robots that generate your crap app forecasts from a piece of software housed in Atlanta.
We are actual people. We are your neighbors. David, Will, and Andrew live and/or work in Williamson County and/or Davidson County. We are all married, all of us have kids, we have college degrees, and this is our hobby that kinda got away from us and turned into a thing, whatever this is. Providing you weather information isn’t easy, but it is a joy, and at the risk of sounding cliche-cheesy (which David hates), it’s our passion. We are huuuuuge radar and tornado and wet bulb and convective available potential energy and warm nose and quasi linear convective system and social media nerds. We think we are also self-aware that we are nerds and we have made peace with that. Of the three of us, Will is the coolest. Andrew is rapidly catching up. David woke up old one day.
If you want the whole story, there are articles out there on The Googles which David feels like are not cool to link to because no one likes the self promoting Hey LOOK AT ME guy. Or, just hit us up on the sosh of your choice.
Interns generate most web content. We’re in our 9th generation of interns from mostly Mississippi State’s meteorology group. David has a soft spot for Mississippi, but that’s not why we get our interns from there. We get them because they are good and have served us well. Yasser Kishk was our first intern, the OG, who once wrote and published a forecast from Egypt. Currently, Elan Segadi is our intern. He’s fantastic.
All funny jokes came from Will, David, and Andrew. Jokes that either aren’t funny or do not land are the responsibility of any intern, past or present.
All weather information is serious. It is nerd-curated and repackaged for easy consumption.
Now enjoy our disclaimer!
DAVID IS A LAWYER, SO HERE IS OUR DISCLAIMER: We are not meteorologists. Nashville Severe Weather is owned and operated by PDS TOR, LLC, in Tennessee, which we created for legal reasons. When we call ourselves tweeteorologists or media-orologists, we do not mean we are meteorologists. All information, tweets, posts, blogs, etc., are derivative, and any opinions are our own. We cannot do this if we assume liability, so please understand we assume no liability. Use at your own risk. Let us reiterate: the user assumes the entire risk related to its use of this data/tweets/posts/updates. Data is provided “as is,” and we disclaim any and all warranties, whether express or implied, including (without limitation) any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will we be liable to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages or lost profit resulting from any use or misuse of this data. Consult all available sources of severe weather, heed all warnings, and do not rely solely on us.
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